DEPARTMENTS VOLUME XXV - ISSUE 5
FROM THE EDITOR / 6
What’s Wrong and
What’s Missing
—Tom Haunert
MASHUP / 7
News, views, trends,
and tools.
Up Front / 6
EVENTS / 12
Find out about upcoming
technology and industry
events.
RESOURCES / 15
Your guide to Oracle
Webcasts, podcasts, white
papers, and more
BRIEFS / 18
The latest product news
INTERVIEW / 23
Storing the Information
Explosion
Scott Tracy, senior director
of storage software
development at Oracle,
talks about Oracle’s storage
technologies. —Tom Haunert
At Oracle / 12
PARTNER NEWS / 26 BOOK BEAT / 26 COMMUNIT Y BULLETIN / 29 Worthy of Membership Oracle Technology Network redefines what it means to be a member of the club. —Justin Kestelyn ARCHITECT / 30 Getting Schooled Education, training, and experience are stepping stones to a career as a software architect.
—Bob Rhubart
UP CLOSE / 32
Global Explorer
OAUG President Mark
Clark wants to expand the
organization’s reach beyond
North America.
—Caroline Kvitka
PEER-TO-PEER / 34
In with the New
Julien Gabel, Fahd Mirza,
Frits Hoogland
—Blair Campbell
Community / 26
ORACLE ADF / 55
All Aboard
Build train models for
navigation in bounded task
flows. —Frank Nimphius
ORACLE DATA
PROVIDER
FOR .NET / 59
Distinctive Database
Development
Use Entity Framework with
Oracle Data Provider for .NET.
—Christian Shay
PL/SQL 101 / 65
Working with Strings
Part 3 in a series of articles
on understanding and using
PL/SQL —Steven Feuerstein
SUPPORT / 71
Troubleshooting
Internal Errors
A guide to assessing and
resolving ORA-600
and ORA-7445 errors
—Tamzin Oscroft
ASK TOM / 74
On Caching and
Evangelizing SQL
Our technologist caches
scalar subqueries, votes
for SQL, and recommends
technology and community.
—Tom Kyte
SQL 101 / 79
Get Your Information
in Order
Part 1 in a series on the
basics of the relational
database and SQL
—Melanie Caffrey
Technology / 55
IN THE FIELD / 84
Education Insurance
Stay current, and stay
employed: five easy ways for
technologists to update their
skill sets. —Mike Riley
Comment / 84
